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Author of @WinnersTakeAll (out now from @AAKnopf), THE TRUE AMERICAN, & INDIA CALLING. Ex-@NYTimes. NBC political analyst. TED talker. @PriyaParker's man. Dad.

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    1. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

      At an event yesterday, maybe four different men asked me: Why didn’t you write a book about solutions? (Women almost never ask this.) It’s a businessman’s need, this thirst for “actionable” solutions. And I’ve come to believe this need masks another, deeper one: for absolution.

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    2. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

      I’m seldom asked this question by women or people of color. Perhaps because being on the wrong end of a major power equation gives one an appreciation of criticism, of the work of dethroning prejudices and lies.

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    3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

      I take every question provoked by the book seriously. But in recent weeks I’ve started to realize that this thirst for insta-solutions is a psychological reflex and need more than an intellectual inquiry.

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    4. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

      One man after another asks it, and often seems to think he’s the first to ask it. There is frequently a suggestion that writing criticism is easy. He could have done that himself! What would be useful is a plan, maybe even numbered.

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    5. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

      Anand Giridharadas Retweeted Lisa Kays

      Pause for this great insight from a Twitter follower.https://twitter.com/lisakaysmsw/status/1046454919157485570?s=21 …

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      Lisa Kays @LisaKaysMSW
      Replying to @AnandWrites
      In therapy, when a patient is doing a piece of emotional work and quickly says, “But what do I do about it?”, it is often appropriate to consider and treat this as a defense mechanism. I think you’re onto something.
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    6. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

      Sometimes I hold out on principle. Sometimes I give in and start suggesting new tax rates. But what I always want to say is: Why does the existence of a book with criticisms so rankle you? Why do you itch to move on so fast to answers? What if you sat with it a moment?

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    7. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

      The books with solutions have already been written! If you are persuaded by @winnerstakeall, persuaded of the need for systemic reform, hundreds of experts have written thousands of books on what fairer tax, labor, social, gender, education policies would be.

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    8. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

      The rush to solutions reflects this hope: that barreling past diagnosis to get to prescribing will bypass the phase of blame. Criticism takes sides. Solutions can involve all.

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      Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30

      But would you ever trust a doctor who skipped past diagnosis and opened up the pill cabinet and started tossing bottles at you? Prescription follows diagnosis. Solution follows analysis. Action follows reflection. Doing follows seeing. And it has ever been so.

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        2. Lisa Kays‏ @LisaKaysMSW Sep 30
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          It is easier to sit in absolution and a “fix” than the discomfort of the disease and its toll—whether emotional or physical. Imagine having to sit in being part of causing the pain/disease. I think that’s where the urge to move past comes from.

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        3. Anand Giridharadas‏Verified account @AnandWrites Sep 30
          Replying to @LisaKaysMSW

          You are very smart. This is so helpful.

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        4. Lisa Kays‏ @LisaKaysMSW Sep 30
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          Thank you. And I’m just putting into clinical/micro terms what you are already pointing out/seeing in systemic/macro terms. It’s one of my favorite hobbies. 🧐😃

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        1. Aditi Juneja  🎃‏Verified account @AditiJuneja3 Sep 30
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          I’ve been suggesting your book to young activists precisely bc it doesn’t have specific actions. I think it’s important for those of us who want to create change to ask the questions your book raises of solutions: 1) Does this shift power? 2) Is there a more root cause solution?

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        1. thrivability‏ @thrivability Sep 30
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          Have you read Peter Block's book "The Answer to How is Yes"? In delicious prose, he describes exactly this tendency, why it's problematic and what is a better alternative to jumping to solutions.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246937.The_Answer_to_How_Is_Yes …

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        1. Kirstin Leiby‏ @KirLeiby Oct 1
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          We accept this (the former) in a lot of public arenas, unfortunately.

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        2. Alex Whitcomb‏ @Alex_Whitcomb Sep 30
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          I think this is slightly facetious...Your diagnosis contains an indictment of a certain class, and it’s normal to consider action should be taken against them. I wonder if you’d expect them to put down the book (or go into a Q&A), roll over, and deliver a mea culpa?

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        3. Alex Whitcomb‏ @Alex_Whitcomb Sep 30
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          Realistically, solutions also entail exclusion. I wonder whether you really expect that class—even the Khoslas amongst them—to participate in self-correction. It may not be in the interest of a book tour to draw lines, but this gendered line seems like a disingenuous sidestep

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        1. Frances Knipp‏ @fselberknipp Sep 30
          Replying to @AnandWrites

          We are generally uncomfortable with the unknown. This liminal space creates anxiety in us which we seek to assuage with action. It requires practice to sit with uncertainty, pain, and seeming powerlessness. People of color and women have more practice at this than white men.

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        1. Patricia Valentyn‏ @EdgeDancer1136 Sep 30
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          Always the quick fix with the most profit.

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        1. Robert Clark‏ @KralcTrebor Sep 30
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          In a business context we often say "move beyond problem identification." In my experience it is often the case that attempting to think through solutions highlights initially unseen aspects of the problem. And sometimes that problem ends up looking less like a problem at all.

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        1. Michael J. Kimball‏ @ethnowise Sep 30
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          I don't have a problem w critique/diagnosis—as you point out, it's a necessary step in addressing a problem. You shouldn't be criticized for offering few solutions. But when the patient demands treatment, it's because they are in some kind of pain and desperate for a cure.

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        1. Stark‏ @templestark Sep 30
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          PS most doctors do this now. It's not a matter of trust but the realities of the system we're in.

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        1. MOTLEYFOE‏ @motleyfoe Sep 30
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          Having born witness to your spouse's insightful TED presentation, I'd argue that you, personally, have more cause than most to adopt a feminist/diagnostic perspective. Yet & still, modern women typically need to be strong-armed into timely response to ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE👨‍🎓

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        1. HotCoffee&BlueTeeNov3‏ @hotcoffeeandpie Sep 30
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          I’m going to assume you do not have any Doctors your immediate family.

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